Knowledge vs. Experience

Knowledge vs. experienceThe famous Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once said, “There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” (whale.to/a/krishnamurti) Krishnamurti is addressing learning as a process in which an individual tries to gain certain knowledge for predestined purposes. He clearly believes that rote memorization is inferior to learning from experiences. Academic knowledge through textbooks can teach individuals theories about life. Life, however, deviates from theory frequently. The only way individuals are going to know about these deviations is when they experience the struggles and fruits of life on their own. [Similarly, in this compelling novel by Herman Hesse, Siddhartha learns that enlightenment cannot be reached through his 7 teachers because it cannot be instilled in an individual’s mind -enlightenment comes from the inner self and through the experiences in which one must obtain wisdom from.] he said it can be a little better In the opening of the novel, Siddhartha is influenced by outside teachings in his search for enlightment. His father and his associated community ideally want him to become a successful Brahmin, instead of joining the Samanas. Everyone else around him still has not reached enlightenment, and Siddhartha feels that residing with them will increase his curiosity regarding his presence in life.(Siddhartha to himself) [“He had begun to suspect that his worthy father and his other teachers, the wise Brahmins, had already passed on to him the bulk of their wisdom… his soul was not at peace.” (3)] Siddhartha craves to better acknowledge the innermost essence of self and its connection to the world in a society. The knowledge passed on to him however does not explain this, which is why Siddhartha speculates the origins of the world and his...

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in a world that typophile is no longer exorbitant, and that printed matters are readily available. In libraries, we can
learn nearly everything only if we have already acquired basic reading skills, philosophy, history, literature,
physics, mathematics, chemicals, biology, geography, anthropology, and the list will go on. Unlike the experience
of an individual that is limited by the range of that individual, books seem to have almost no limitation. Sitting in
the local library, we virtually can travel everywhere through an interesting geographic encyclopedia, and certainly,
with nearly no expense at all.
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more comprehensive than that gained from books. It is quite true that not every thing is contained in books. How
to deal with personal finance, how to cope with current social trends, even how to most effectively organize our
own mind, and numerous other things can seldom be found thoroughly and comprehensively discussed in books,
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